What you’ll achieve:
In this project-centered course*, you will create an original four page minicomic designed around a short story of your choosing.
What you’ll need to get started:
This project-centered course is designed for all-age learners (high school age and above, at least 13 years of age) who are interested in learning how to make a comic book, but have never completed one before.
While comic books can be created with any kinds of materials, we recommend that learners have the following materials available to complete the project: at least one ream of 8.5x11 copy paper, #2 pencils and eraser, Sharpie-type fine point pens, ruler with inch measurements, and adjustable binding stapler. Learners should also have access to a printer and scanner (to facilitate digitizing work to be shared with peers on Coursera).
*About Project-Centered Courses:
Project-Centered Courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share.

教學方

Patrick E. Yurick

Christopher O'Keeffe

腳本

At this part of a course, you're going to be submitting your script to peer review, so that you can get feedback to make your script better. Remember, when you're giving feedback to other people's script to be kind, specific and helpful. Submitting your artwork to be looked is a very nerve racking process and we want to make sure that everybody's getting the support they need to make their script as best as they can. If other peers within the course give you feedback that you feel is a little too brutal or a little too negative. Why don't you give them the benefit of the doubt at first and ask them for clarity on what they meant? Sometimes, negative feedback is actually feedback that's the best feedback that we can get to make our scripts really great. Don't just get mad and dismiss them, try and understand where they're coming from. This portion of the course should take no longer than about an hour between putting the script online, reviewing others and incorporating feedback into your script. Now you should be planning on doing about one or two drafts, maybe three or four drafts if you're strict. You want it to be excellent and you want to make sure that everything is spelled correctly and that the story flows as best as it can before you start working on your art. I'm looking forward to reading your script.